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Monica Rezman


©️ Jo-hs, Photo: Alex Ayala

RESIDENCY 

May 2023

BIO

Monica Rezman is a multi-media artist who explores intimacy within abstraction through the use of traditional media and everyday found materials. She studied painting and textile design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While at SAIC, she spent a study-abroad year at the Instituto Allende in Mexico. In 1993, she studied classical drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. In 1999 and 2002 consecutively, Rezman was awarded an Art-in-Residence in Gujurat, India, One of the world’s most revered craft communitie in textiles. For the last forty years, she has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Riverside Art Center, 2019, Governors State University Gallery, 2019, Merida English Library, Mexico 2015, The Chicago Cultural Center, 2017; The Contemporary Art Gallery, India 1999, and the South Bend Regional Museum of Art 1998. In 2017-18 she was the Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago Artist Coalition’s Field/Program. She is a 2020 recipient of an Individual Illinois Arts Council Grant. Her work has been reviewed by Hyperallergic, Alan Artner (Chicago Tribune). and New City. She has recently had a one-person exhibition at 65 Grand, a group show at Kavi Gupta Gallery and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in Los Angles. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the JO-HS Gallery in Mexico City.




   





SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
Plomo Gallery, Salon Acme, Mexico City
2020
Shapes of a Premonition
Borzello Gallery, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
2019
No In Between, 65 Grand, Chicago, Ill
Governors State University, University Park. Il
Sound Textures of Intimacies of Space: Freeark Gallery, Riverside Art
Center, Riverside, Ill
2016
Chaos Theory: Seerveld Gallery, Trinity College, Chicago, Illinois
2014
The Pollen Path, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
2011
The Woolgather, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
2008
Being Woven. Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, New York
2007
Is Today Tomorrow, NatvaSchulz Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001
Lifting the Veil, Lyonsweir Packer, Chicago, Illinois
2001
Veiled, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India
1999
Secrets Revealed. South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Indiana
1998
Hidden and Revealed. Gary Marks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Amuleto, The Franklin, Chicago, Illinois
2022
The Plan, Chicago
Patrician Sweetow Gallery, Los Angles
Resilence Aurora Public Art Aurora, Illinois
tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Industry of the ordinary,
Design Museum of Chicago.
2021
Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit, Kavi Gupta Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois
Bounce Back, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
2020
Black and White lll, Best in Show, Envision Arts
2019
In Progress:The Plein Air Project, Living Room, Chicago, Illinois
Collage Office, The Franklin, Chicago, Illinois
Bodies in Motion, Loosen Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
Women Made “Midwest Open”, Chicago, Illinois
2018
Invisibilia, Governors State University, University Park, Illinois
We like small things v.2. Filter Photo, Chicago
Continuous Span, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
If you have two legs, borrow another and run, HEREArts Center, NYC
Won’t you be my neighbor, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
“One” Cleave Carney Gallery, College of Dupage
2017
People, Places and Possibilities , Chicago Cultural Center
Drawing to Conclusion, Lubeznik Center, Indiana
2015
Merida English Library, Merida, Mexico
2012
AREA, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago
Acts of Recognition, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids ,Mi
2010
Hidden Faces, Primo Piano Gallery, Lecce, Italy
Art Loop Open, Chicago
The 14th Annual No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition of
Contemporary Art
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
2009
Down To Their: Koehnline Museum of Art
Prints & Drawings: Works on Paper
Lubeznik Center for the Arts-Indiana
2008
The Drawing Show. Beverly Arts Center, Illinois
2007
Pool Art Fair, Miami Beach
2007
Bridge Art Fair, London
2007
Works on Paper. Evanston Art Center, Illinois
2007
13th Annual International Women’s Exhibition
Soho20 Gallery, New York, Juror: Carie Springer,
Assistant Curator Department of Prints and Special
Collection, Whitney Museum of Art
2007
The Artist Project. Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois
2002
Harboring Beauty. Gescheidle Gallery Chicago, Illinois
2001
“Venus” Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago Illinois
2000
Sextablos. Barrister Gallery, New Orleans La
2000
Snowball Invitational. Lyonsweir Packer Gallery, Chicago
1999
Sextablos, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
1998
Evanston & Vicinity 14th Biennial Exhibition
Evanston Art Center, Illinois
1997
Around the Coyote, Curators Choice, Chicago, Illinois
1996
Another Pretty Face. Portrait Exhibition
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
1994
Frida-The Last Portrait, Court Theatre-University of Chicago
1994
After The Apple, Art of Women-South Suburban College

PUBLICATION
2012
International Photography Annual 1-Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2010
International Drawing Annual-Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati. Ohio
2006
New American Painting

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023
JO-HS Gallery, Mexico City
2018
Bridge Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2017-18
Field/Work Residency Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago
1999
Kanoria Center For The Arts-Ahmadabad, India
2002

Kanoria Center For The Arts-

AWARDS

2020
Illinois Art Council
2009

Purchase Award: Lubeznik Center, Indiana
2007
Award For Excellence Evanston Art Center, Illinois

REVIEWS
2021
New City Review, Chicago
Thinking about Abstraction,
2014
New City Review, Chicago
Hyperallergic by Phillip A Haritigan
2007
Chicago Tribune. Alan Artner
2007
New City, Chicago
2001
Times of India
2001
Indian Express
1998
South Bend Tribune, Indiana
1998
Chicago Sun Times
1994
Chicago Sun Times

EDUCATION
1994-97
School of Representational Art. Chicago, Illinois
1993
Florence Academy Of Art, Florence Italy
1992
Instituto Allende of Art, San Miguel Allende, Mexico
1976-80
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
TEACHING
2010-2020
Chicago Board Of Education Chiarts
1998
Figure Painting-Gay Risebourgh Studio, Evanston, Illinois
1997
Portrait Painting, Suburban Fine Arts Center,
Highland Park, Illinois